Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The census of 1881 gave Canada
a $40 210 poopIa

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The census of 1881 gave Canada
4,S42. $40 people.
of the 80, 100000 women and girls
under British rule in India, SO. 500, 600
can not read or write at all. and many
of the other 200. 600 can barely dc
either. Boston Budget.
Statistics show that in Germany
31.80 per cent of the women are
blonde, 1405 brunette aud 81 Is mixed.
Colonel Wright has never ventured
upon this feature of statistical informa-
| ton.
-Stilt-walking has become popu.
lar sport in England, and has its
champion, who reached London the
other day, having walked from Dun
dee. nearly five hundred miles, on
stills, in twenty-eight and one-hali
| days.
Sheffield. Eng, has just come into
possession of a completed art gallery,
well supplied with objects, the gift OF
a brewer who left Els. 900 to build the
gallery, with his own collection OF
sIOOrOOO.
| When a native of China is bitten
by mad dog, and symptoms of hydro
phobia present themselves, the poor
/ fellow is, according to custom in such
cases, chained up by his hands and
feet till death puts an end to his sui
| ferings.
In some of the European SWIM
ming-schools the pupils are taken out
in boat and purposely upset, as
though the upsetting were accidental.
They are also pushed overheard and
subjected to all manner of accidents,
in order to know how to act in case of
real accident.
Thirty thousand medals of one
kind have been made for the Bulgaria
army, sixty thousand of another kind,
and a Vienna factory is engaged in
making an unlimited number of
medals of yet another kind. And all
for Bulgarian soldiers. Measured by
medals. Bulgaria would rate as one of
the greatest of all the European States.
"A large paddle wheel steamer Has
been constructed in England for car
rying passengers across the English
channel which can make the trip from
Dover to Calais in less than an hour.
She is more than three hundred feet
long. and her size and speed will do
much to lessen the dread which trav-
elers have entertained of the sea jour
ney between England and France.
In Chill, where women are horse
car conductors, the men who make a
business of flirting with the conductors
are called mosquitoes, because they
swarm SO thickly around the cars sand
are so great a nuisance. AS the women
are young and pretty in their neat uni
forms of blue flannel and a many
pocketed white pinafore trimmed with
frills, it is not surprising that they at
tract passengers.
"A lecturer before the British M edi-
cal society showed at the meeting that
the mortality among the middle class
in Dublin was more than double that
of the professional and independent
class. In the latter class the death rate
during the last year was Is. 4 per 1. 900
persons; in the middle class, 273;
among the artisans and petty shop
keepers, 22.3 and in the general
service class and tie inmates of work
houses it was ss-ZNs
A Plague of ants is repor ted from
Nancy, in France. The insects were
of immense size. some having wings.
They fell in such large numbers that
the inhabitants thought they were
having repetition of one of the
Egyptian plaques. The thick, black
flakes kept falling for an hour, and
every part of the city was covered.
1t is supposed that the visitation was
the forerunner of violent storm
which swept over the city the next
day.
An immense drainage work un-
dertaken by the Russian Government
contemplates the recovery of the vast
region known as the Pinsk marshes,
in the southwest of Russia, near the
borders of Gallicia, and which hither-
to has prevented communication, not
only between the Russian districts on
either side, but also between Russia
and Austro-Germany. Up to the pres
ent time about a, 000,0 900 acres have
been reclaimed by means of the con-
struction of several thousand miles of
bitches and canals. N Y Sun.
London Engineering says that in
Bournemouth the local board of COM
missioners have adopted plan for
using salt water for sprinkling the
streets and flushing sewers. The cost
will be five pence per thousand gall
Ions, and when, at the end of thirty
years. the cost of the plant is paid, it
will be only three pence. On gravel
roads in the vicinity of Portsmouth it
was successful in preventing dust. as
it forms sort of skin over the sur
face. 1t Great Yarmouth it has been
use for seventeen years and gives
satisfaction.